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Hello. I need help on my science project. I need to know how to cheaply preform DIY small scale saltwater reverse osmosis. I'm researching, "How effective is reverse osmosis in the bacterial removal?" The CDC says highly effective but that's never a guarantee especially due to organic volatile organisms which can get through easily and the acidic pH levels.

Hello ALDGR8,
Welcome to Science Buddies!

I tried unsuccessfully to find projects in the Science Buddies projects using reverse osmosis. I did find a couple of websites which discuss the process and one of these gives step by step instructions for building your own.

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.co ... erse-23240

http://www.ehow.com/how_12019095_make-o ... ystem.html

Let us know if either of these was useful and if you have any more questions!

I found some other websites for projects involving reverse osmosis.

https://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/educatio ... s_6-12.pdf
http://my.fit.edu/~mpozo/Unit_Operations/exp2.htm